Egg-preserving apparatus



(No Model.)

J. FORD. EGG PRBSBRVING APPARATUS.

No. 438,073. Patented Oct. 7, 1890.

UNITED STATES ATENT FFIoE.

JOSEPH FORD, OF PALMYRA, MICHIGAN.

EGG-PRESERVING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 438,073, dated October '7, 1890.

Application filed May 12, 1890. Serial No 351,495. (No model.) A

To all whom it may concern: tier of frames forms a series of egg-receiving Be it known that I, JOSEPH FORD, a citizen spaces, as shown. of the United States, residing at Palmyra, in The opposite end bars 3 are at each side of the county of Lenawee and State of Michigan, their series of rollers. provided with aligning 5 have invented a new and useful Egg-Preservrecesses 6, and over each series of rollers there ing Apparatus, of which the following is a is mounted an operating-rod '7, which at its specification. outer end is provided with an eye 8.

This invention has relation to apparatus The operating-rods may be connected in for preserving, eggs and to that particular any suitable manner to the series of rollers, [0 class in which the eggs are turned at interwhereby by a reciprocation of the rod said vals so as to prevent the yolks of the eggs rollers are partially turned. In this instance from settling, and thus becoming spoiled. I connect one end of a stout cord or rope to The objects of my invention are to combine the operating-bar near its front end, as shown simplicity and chcapness with ease of opera at 6, and then coil the cord or rope 9 around 15 tion and to provide an apparatus adapted to and over said bar and each successive roller, contain any number of eggs, which may be fastening the coils to the operating-bar and partially turned or rotated and that simulto the rollers at each point of crossing by taneously and with ease. small staples 10.

With the above objects in view the inven- The entire series of eyes 8 are now con- 20 tion consists in certain features of construcnected by a vertical pin 11, which pin is retion, hereinafter specified, and particularly movable for the purpose of permitting of a pointed out in the claims. separation of the sections, and by said pin Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perthe entire series ofin this instance, four spective. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section. operating-bars may be reciprocated, and in 2 5 Fig. 3 is a similar detail View of a portion of so doing Will partially rotate the entire series one of the frames, a series of rollers, and a of rollers. portion of the operating-rod. Fig. 4 is a de- In practice the eggs are placed between tial in transverse section through one of the each pair of rollers, as illustrated in the drawside rails of one of the frames. ings, and once or twice a week the entire se- 0 Like numerals of reference indicate like ries are simultaneously partially turned or parts in all the figures of the drawings. rotated through the medium of the connect- In practicing my invention I construct the ing-rods. In this manner, the apparatus being apparatus of as many rectangular frames 1 set in a cool cellar or other place, the yolks, as may be desired and in accordance with which'are the most perishable portion of the 5 the number of eggs the apparatus is to receive. eggs, are maintained away from the shells of The frames 1 each comprises a pair of longithe eggs, and thus preserved by the whites of tudinal side bars 2 and a pair of end bars 3, the eggs from the effects of the atmosphere. which connect said side bars. The side and end bars of each of the frames Between each pair of longitudinal bars 2 at their upper edges are provided with dowel- 9o 40 there is journaled a series of loose rollers 4, pins 18, and the lower edges of the bars are said rollers, preferably, being formed of wood provided with corresponding dowel-pin-reand spaced a short distance apart, as shown, ceiving openings 19. In this manner the the distance being too small to permit of an frames are held removably in position, and it egg passing between a pair of rollers, or to is evident that other ordinary mechanical 5 permit of an egg becoming wedged between means may be readily devised for this pur the same. The rollers are supported in posipose. tion in this instance by a series of bearing- Having thus described my invention, what pins 5, passed through the side bars 2, and I claim isfreely rotate thereupon. The diameters of 1. The combination, with the frame or sectoo 50 the rollers are considerably less than the tion and the series of transverse loosely-jourthickness or depth of the side bars, so that a naled rolls, of aconnecting-rod mounted above the rolls and an operating-cord having its ends connected to the rod near the ends of the same and intermediate its ends coiled loosely about the rod and each successive roller and connected to the rod and rollers at the points of crossing, substantially as specified.

at the ends of the rods, and a removable pin connecting the entire series of eyes, substantially as specified.

3. In an eg -preserver, the frame having a parallel series of rollers, combined with an operating-rod mounted at right angles to the rollers and cords wound on the rod and the rollers in reverse directions, whereby the movement of the rod Will cause an oscillation of the rollers, asset forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

. JOSEPH FORD. Witnesses:

A. W. SMITH, R. R. ROBBINS. 

